diff --git a/its/plugin/pom.xml b/its/plugin/pom.xml
index 9fef9d67b92..3480782e457 100644
--- a/its/plugin/pom.xml
+++ b/its/plugin/pom.xml
@@ -41,13 +41,6 @@
       <version>${sonarlint.plugin.api.version}</version>
       <scope>test</scope>
     </dependency>
-    <!-- sonarlint-core requires slf4j 2.x at runtime; override the parent's 1.7 management for this module. -->
-    <dependency>
-      <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
-      <artifactId>slf4j-api</artifactId>
-      <version>${slf4j.test.version}</version>
-      <scope>test</scope>
-    </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.awaitility</groupId>
       <artifactId>awaitility</artifactId>
diff --git a/its/plugin/tests/pom.xml b/its/plugin/tests/pom.xml
index 9faca0f820b..0f9db2559b9 100644
--- a/its/plugin/tests/pom.xml
+++ b/its/plugin/tests/pom.xml
@@ -84,13 +84,6 @@
       <artifactId>commons-lang3</artifactId>
       <scope>test</scope>
     </dependency>
-    <dependency>
-      <!-- Fixes "Defaulting to no-operation (NOP) logger", which results in missing logs from the orchestrator. -->
-      <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
-      <artifactId>slf4j-simple</artifactId>
-      <version>${slf4j.version}</version>
-      <scope>test</scope>
-    </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.sonarsource.java</groupId>
       <artifactId>test-classpath-reader</artifactId>
diff --git a/its/ruling/pom.xml b/its/ruling/pom.xml
index a495c007da3..7b59925f4d1 100644
--- a/its/ruling/pom.xml
+++ b/its/ruling/pom.xml
@@ -84,13 +84,6 @@
       <version>${project.version}</version>
       <scope>test</scope>
     </dependency>
-    <dependency>
-      <!-- Fixes "Defaulting to no-operation (NOP) logger", which results in missing logs from the orchestrator. -->
-      <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
-      <artifactId>slf4j-simple</artifactId>
-      <version>${slf4j.version}</version>
-      <scope>test</scope>
-    </dependency>
     <!-- not a direct code dependency, but needed to download it and install it into SonarQube -->
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.sonarsource.java</groupId>
diff --git a/its/vibebot/pom.xml b/its/vibebot/pom.xml
index e139d1e7771..5cfd3419385 100644
--- a/its/vibebot/pom.xml
+++ b/its/vibebot/pom.xml
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
   <properties>
     <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
     <maven.compiler.release>21</maven.compiler.release>
-    <slf4j.version>1.7.36</slf4j.version>
+    <slf4j.version>2.0.18</slf4j.version>
   </properties>
   <dependencies>
     <dependency>
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 774bdbe5191..244111c55ab 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -90,7 +90,7 @@
     <!-- Required by shadow scans -->
     <sonar.organization>sonarsource</sonar.organization>
     <!-- Compile and test against the latest plugin API. Runtime compatibility is validated independently. -->
-    <sonar.plugin.api.version>13.11.0.4459</sonar.plugin.api.version>
+    <sonar.plugin.api.version>14.0.0.4498</sonar.plugin.api.version>
     <sonar.scanner.version>13.10.0.4657</sonar.scanner.version>
     <sonarlint.plugin.api.version>11.9.0.86162</sonarlint.plugin.api.version>
     <sonar.sca.exclusions>its/**,java-checks-test-sources/**</sonar.sca.exclusions>
@@ -113,10 +113,7 @@
     <mockito-agent-jar>mockito-core-${mockito-core.version}.jar</mockito-agent-jar>
 
     <!-- The product must work with the SLF4J provided in the Plugin API. -->
-    <slf4j.version>1.7.36</slf4j.version>
-    <!-- SonarLint Core, used in plugin ITs, requires new SLF4J. -->
-    <slf4j.test.version>2.0.18</slf4j.test.version>
-
+    <slf4j.version>2.0.18</slf4j.version>
   </properties>
 
   <distributionManagement>